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MI ICE GREW TABTM LIKE MORE”. At fountains. Orders for banouHs. re MMlona. lodaea club affairs and family trade a specialty. Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871 VOLUME 29 ! Nft. 348 When Pinchot Was “Fired” the Shot Was Heard 'Round the World and in the Jungle Too FAMOUS AVIATORS WHO WILL FLY AT LOS ANGELES AEROPLANE MEET California aviators who will compete with world famous aeronauts in con tests in the air at the aviation congress at Los Angeles Jan. 10 to 20, and some of their machines. In the top picture, standing, from left to right, Edgar S. Smith, W. S. Eaton, William Stevens, J. H. Klassen and Gates M. Fowler. On their knees, left to right—H. LaV. Twining, Frederick E. West, William Burton. Below at right. Mr. Fowler and Mr. West building a triplane; at left, H. LaV. Twining in his machine, which he calls an ornnthopter; at left, in flying, its wings will flap like a bird s. TWO MEN SHOT AT COCKFIGHT Panic-Stricken Crowd Stampedes as Innocent Spectator Topples Over ■. and Man Shot at Also Falls. - 7X HOURS FILLED WITH CRIME ■f Three men shot and one man’s thumb nearly bitten off by a Bazy man was the record within six hours yesterday afternoon and mrly last evening. K The first was when Winnie Walker, 30 years old. had his face ■irn open as the result of a pistol wound at his home, 215 South Karedo street. Il The second was when Deputy Sheriff J. M. Villareal had the lliumb of his left hand bitten to the bone in a desperate struggle ’with Jesus Maria Quinones in the new'Mexican settlement back of the Mexican cemetery. : Last evening, to complete the day’s list, one man may die and another was painfully injured as the result of a shooting at a cock DE L\ RO«A. ; - ~ ; bn. R ns criti. al. MMrl T-r vui bone shattered. \m of arm may be necessary ", \TTEKS. plasterer. I?' avenue. aged 54 yenrs. ima’ 0.- in city jail. charged with having ■nne the shooting. ■ In a shooting scrape which took Bilaee at 9:45 o'clock last night. In a ■ eoek pit conducted by Eugene Ogden ■ at the corner of South Santa Rosa ave 'sue and 'Monterey streets, .Toe CaaaiaSO was struck by the first shot fired from e 41 Colt's revolver held in the’hand ’ of Nelson Watters. .Tuan de la Rosa, sitting fifty feet, away from the scene of trouble, but in a direct line of the fire fell at the second ’hot. The pit was filled with hundreds of person', mostly Mexicans and the wild , est scenes' followed the rapid discharge of the exploding cartridges. A ver itable stampede was in progress, when Watters stopped shooting and calmly walked away with the pistol in his hands. Watters was placed under arrest as he steppad from the cock pit on Mon fprev street, J. Johnson, a captain of • he Texas state rangers, a number of visiting deputy constables and sheriffs cssistiug the police in perfecting the arrest. Patrolmen Carver. Ortiz and Cruz were accompanied by the ranger captain and the visiting officers in "« carting Watters to the citv hall. The shooting is said to have been the culmination of a difficulty between Watters and Cassiano, the former claiming that the latter had insulted him by alleged abusive language dur tjlng the question of a bet. Juan Rosa, SAN ANTONIO LIGHT the aged victim of-a stray bullet, had nothing to do with the quarrel. Much sympathy was expressed for him by scores of Mexicans who returned to the seene later. ■ Conveyed to the Hospital. Rosa was. conveyed to. tne city hos pital after being given temporary treatment while lying on the ground in the cock pit by Dr. R. L. Withers. Ex amination showed that he had been struck in the right side a couple of inches from the ann pit. the ball rang ing on a level nnd after piercing the right lung lodged in the flesh of the back near the spine. Cassinno was hurried to the Santa Rosa infirmary, where he was treated bv Citv Physi- cian Dr. S. Burg. He was found to have been hit in the left arm three inches below the shoulder blade. The bullet passed through the bone of the arm. shattering it and lodged beneath the skin on the opposite side. The ball wns removed. Tt was announced at the hospital laat night that efforts would be made to save the arm, but that, at tjie present time it could not be oeter mined whether amputation would be necessary. According to information gathered by the police from those familiar with the trouble, it seems that Watters and Cswiaiw became involved in a heated discussion in a nearby saloon. The dif ference . ame about, it is claimed, over st bet the two men talked about waging, on a cork fight. Tne next movements of the men were at the cock pit ring. Roth stood near the entrance. Watters is said to have left, but returned shortly. Standing directly in' the irWin entrance to the nit. Watters is said to have opened' fire upon Cassiano without warning. Cnssiano at the Hane was standing about ten feet from Watters and wns looking west. At the first shot Ca« einno staggered and seemed to fall, (Continued on page two.) 44 PAGES SEVERE RIOTS iN ENGLAND Political Warfare Growing In Bitterness Until Even Women Are Unsafe on the Streets. 50,000 WOMEN WORKING Duke of Norfold Addressed Au dience Made Up Solely of Reporters. ELECTION SETS NEW MARK Yesterday's Riots Are Culmina tions of 20.000 Political Meetings This Week. United Preu. Ixmdon, Jan. 8. —Twenty thousand political meetings held throughout Eng land during the past week culminated tonight in riots, brick throwing and wild demonstrations against the con servative party in the election which is now engrossing England. Meetings con ducted by 1 the duke of Devonshire, the earl of Stanhope and the duke of Nor folk, in the constituencies of Skipton. the south end of London and in Brox ton. were marked by the wildest demon strations. Only the fearlessness and good humor of the duke of Norfolk prevented se rious rioting at. Broxton, where the ex cited voters stormed the lecture hall and absolutely refuesd to allow the speaker to hold a public meeting. He was finally forced to make his address to an audience made up solely of r porters. The conservatives are hoping to gain considerable ground in their fight next week during the retirement of the peers who are debarred from participating in active election work after the dissoln tion of parliament. The peers have not been votegetters. The gravest dan ger feared by the liberals is the possi ble stampede of the liberals into the conservative ranks,, against the big navy and anti-home rule. Politics! warfare is growing in bit terness to such an extent that even women are no longer safe from attack and insult. Women canvassers, of whom there are hundreds at work, are in con stant danger. Mrs. Arthur Fell, elec tioneering for her husband, was attack ed to night and slapped in the face by an angry opponent. Fifty thousand Women are working throughout the country. Lloyd George, speaking at Plymouth tonight, ridiculed the conservatives’ ar gument that protection forced foreign ers to bear the bulk of the national taxes. “Why doesn’t Germany tax the for eignersl” asked the speaker. “At any rate the German chancellor is untrou bled by this obsolete custom, lie knew perfectly well that it is all rubbish tax- AND GAZETTE SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, |9|o INSURANCE RATES TAKE JUMP HERE San Antonio Must Pay Hereaf ter as High a Rate as That in North Texas. NEW RULES ARE ISSUED All Fire Insurance Premiums Must Be Paid in Cash —No Partial Payments. CHARGES ARE “ASCENDING" The Automobile Garages Get ‘Soaked’ to Use Expression of Disgruntled Owners. Insurance covering at least 80 per cent of the value of the property in sured must be taken out, else in the event of fire the owner becomes co insurer with the company and must stand a prorata of the loss. This rule applies on practically everything ex cept dwellings. All fire insurance premiums must be paid in cash. The custom of permit ting the issuance of policies with par tial payment has to be suspended en tirely. Absolutely uniform charges for fire insurance shall prevail throughout the state; and south Texas, including San Antonio, which has been paying a lower rate, will hereafter have to pay the same as north Texas. Owners wishing to take out policies for less than 80 per cent of property value, and wishing an insurance com pany to assume all liability, thus ob viating the attachment of the coinsur ance clause, must pay double rates. Absolutely no gasoline shall be al lowed in dwellings except the one gal lon contained in gasoline stove reser voir. Permit to keep more on the prem ises will bo granted at an increasing scale of rates. Outside supplies must be kept at least 30 feet from any in sured balding. Additional and ascending charges are made on auAzmobile garages, except under specified conditions which are very stringent. All fire insurance rates quoted now and to be quoted between January 1 | and probably February 10 are but tem : porary and must be replaced later with I the fixed rate which is to be determ ‘ ined after the companies doing business | in Texas have made inspections and have calculated rates, based on the gen eral schedules filed with the insurance commissioner, according to classifica tion of risk. Such, in brief, sums up the most drastic series of fire insurance regula tions ever issued in the state of Texas. They went into effect January 1, 1910. and are but the main features of a code of laws which are claimed to aim at increasing the bulk of fire insurance, thus decreasing the rates; affording more complete protection to property, which also allows decrease in rates; and I doing away entirely with discrimina tions and practices which are said to have been prevalent prior to this year. That there hnd been some unusual regulations made by the fire insurance companies was manifest when first no tices were received here before January 1. It was only when the schedule books came in that the full extent of the iu- (Continued on page two.) COMMENTS ON LIFE OF LATE CARDINAL ' United Frees. | Boston. Mass., Jan. \-Commenting | ;on the life of Cardinal Satolli, who . died in Rome today. Archbishop O Con* | I nell of Boston tonight said: I “The church has lost one of its I | greatest princes, the world of science j j one of its greatest minds, the holy [ father one of his wisest counsellors. ' ! America lias lost a great friend. . I “He was a man who brought to his work a mind perfectly disciplined and a judgment keen and true. “Tt seems his lot in life was to clear i the debris of old conditions nnd to sink j foundations for now edifices. “God gave him to see as few can understand. The steadv clearness >f I his vision lifted him high above his I surroundings. “His life was one continuous labor, i I so difficult in its varied activities that I | to succeed in any one of them, would i have been a great achievement. l ing foreigners through a protective | I tariff. .; “Great Britain, on the other haud.| .reaps a rich harvest from the world i through free trade. Protection is like, 1 quicksand, in that the more you sting * gle the deeper you «ink. The people' are struggling to get out oi this quick ! sand, but are unable to do so. 'I he con- | servatives are now bolting like tab- ■ bits from the cj-q»l< -r .1“ Germa* I PAINTS “ROOSEVELT” ON POLITICAL SKY NO BORDER BETWEEN THE REPUBLICS Politically It May Still Exist But Not Fraternally or Com mercially. CLOSER RELATIONS URGED Keynote of Banquet in Honor of Governor del Valle of State of Coahuila. MARKS DAWN OF NEW ERA Visit of Executive Closes in Brilliant Fashion —Friend- ship Pledged Anew. The entertainment of Governor Jesus del Valle of Coahuila, Mex ico. and his party closed in a blaze of brilliancy at the banquet given in his honor by friends, members of the bar of this city and Mexico, at the St. Anthony hotel last night. The character of the assemblage, the men around the banquet board representing Intellects most prom inent in shaping the destinies of both sections of their respective countries,' stamped the occasion as the beginning of a new era in fos tering a brotherly lore between the people of Mexico and of Texas and the United States. The views of some of Toxas' most prominent lawyers were exchanged with those of lawyers from the sister country across the Rio Grande. “As you sow so shall you reap’’ is an old adage and a ! very true one, and if the words and ex pressions of good will and .mutual re . lationship that were sown last night are reaped, the harvest will no doubt be beyond the expectations of the most optimistic. The dining hall of the St. Anthony hotel was a perfect garden spot and the setting nnd decorations carried out to the detail with a color scheme of red, white and green, the national colors of Mexico, gave the function an air for eign and distinguished. Before the banquet opened a note was received from Fred W. Cook, president of the Chamber of Commerce, who sent his regrets that on account of ill health he found it impossible to attend. He bade his excellency, the governor of Coahuila, a very hearty welcome'in be half of the Chamber of Commerce, join ing in this the city government, the In ternational club and every citizen of San Antonio. At the head of the ban quet board sat the guest of honor, Jesus 1 del Valle, and on his right Lie Tonias Barlauga and on his left Theodore Har ris. In his opening remarks Mr. Harris ex plained that primarily this function was intended for a banquet particularly fur lawyers but knowing the lawyers have a weakness for speaking and to have an audience, it was decided to invite men prominent in all the professions and the comercial world. With this result an I assemblage had been brought together representing the highest intellect prob ably ever gathered together before in the great southwest, lie proposed the first toast to that great aud distin-, guished soldier and statesman. Presi-' dent Diaz of the republic of Mexico. A Toast to Diaz. A. W. Houston responded and in part! said: “We know a tree by its fruit, a man' by what he does. All of us in this coun try like a man who does things. On reading history our admiration is elicit ed by reading of men who have done a great work in the world. Some do i this work for greater power and to fur ther selfish ambitions. Some for the (Continued on page two.) ’• COUPLE 76 YEARS OLD * GRANTED DIVORCE '■ *• Special Dispatch. "• % Fort Wor’h, Tex.. Jan. 8. —A *• •• decree of divorce was granted ■■ *• today by the district court to •, ’• Mr. au<l Mrs. J. M. Ganu. Both *• *■ are 70 years old and have been *• *, married 58 years. They have “» '■ great grandchildren. The hus- ’■ '■ baud claims desertion and the •, ’• w'fe alleges cruelty on the part *• *• of her husband. *• % % •. % % S % % 5 S *. S 44 PAGES Pinchot-Taft Break Brings Forth Talk of Mighty Hunter for President in 1912. FORESTER APPEALS TO PEOPLE 1 United Press. Washington, D. C.. Jan. B.—Dismissed from his office of chief forester by President Taft on the ground of insubordination, Gifford Pinchot, originator of the conservation policy and bosom friend of the ex-president, today appeal ed his case to the American people. I Telegrams of congratulation on his fight against the administration poured | in on Pinchot all day from every part i of the country. .Many telegrams wore received nt the white house, the senti- j ment of which was not made public. The developments in the famous Ballinger Pinchot controversy are admitted to have created the most serious political crisis of any since the civil war. They have'painted again across the political sky tne | shadow of Theodore Roosevelt as n possible opponent of the Taft ad mt(iistrntion nnd recalled from the skeleton shelf the “back from Elba" story with new and ominous variations. V hilo the chief figure in the con troversy would make no statement for publication today. Pinchot did give out for publication a stenographic report of two addresses ho made to his former associates on taking his official leave of them and .in his remarks is written plainly a defi to the Taft administra tion, an appeal to the people to uphold him as the defender of the Roosevelt conservation policy and n pledge ' to carry his fight to the country on this issue. “Never allow yourselves to forget you are serving a much greater mas ter than the department of agriculture or oven the administration. You are serving the people of the I'niteil States.” said Pinehrrt to hi* former co workers in the government service. “You am engaged iu a piece of work.” he continued, “that lies at the j foundation of the new policy of con j servation and of equal importance. You NAME LEADERS IN BIG CONTEST Candidates Make Splendid Showing for First Week—Many Heavy Votes Held Back. COUNTRY DISTRICTS SHOW WELL THE LEADER. Miss Hilda Lee, San Antonio. DISTRICT LEADERS No. 1, Miss Hilda Lee. No. 2, Thomas Chiado. No. 3, Miss Ruth Hunter. No. 4. Miss Josephine Fores tello. No. 5, Miss Louise Wilkie, B No. 6. Mr. Henry Mitchell. 8 oerne. abinal. No. 7. Miss Vera- Coreth, Ne w Braunfels. No. 8, Miss Florence Fcrgu son. Beeville. With 97 live ones enrolled the merry war for the richest prize awards ever offered in a Texas contest may be said to have begun and the beginning is a great one. fully up to the expectations of the most sanguine—the book is open to record a new record in subscription contest history and this one. like Abou Ben Adhcm. will surely lead all the rest: »ud why not. pray’ Isn’t it the great r>st prize offer ever made by a Texas newspaper? Not only in value of prizes jut in quality and desirability it stands supreme—in a class alone. It will surely make a noise that will startle ill of Texas —the honor alone of win ning a grand prize in this contest is north supreme effort, aside from the fortune to be won with the honor. No contest wns ever so favorably re ceived and enlisted the support aud endorsement of so many influential people throughout this prosperous sec tion js this one. With interest so keen so young in the action what will it be train now to the short close. Tuesday. March 1 next? Every class of people from beggar to banker ami school girl to rich dowager, are interested in this Unique .“17.500 prize affair. With to lav's announcement of the first list of •ontestuuts hundreds more will be uom mated in a hurry from all walks-of life throughout the entire eight dis tricts. Many were waiting to sec the, first resimeut get into action and now PASTEURIZED MILK AND EREAM Twahfo W«aon« t» Make Dsltvofoe la All Part* at ths city. Srtawity Dairy C», Phom 871 PRICE: FIVE CENTS are creating a principal of view that, in the end will control this and all other nations.” This, some political observers think ia the first step in the formation of a new political party to advance “the new pa triotism of conservation and equal op portunity” of which Roosevelt will be ' the political sponsor and Pinchot per ! haps the presidential candidate. Certain of Success. That he is certain of the ultimate sue i coss of the movement is shown by his | mconcealed joy that the unhappy fam ' ilv relations between himself and Taft have been severed in just the way ne sought to have it severed and his state | ment that the new patriotism “will, in I the end. control this nation.” “This fight must go on.” said Pin chot to his former chiefs of division, i“and you arc the men who must carry ■ it on.” And again. “I nm going to stay with | this conservation movement. Wherever ' I may le. I want you to understand ! that my interest will not flag.” Conservation Is Life Work. In his address to all the employes of ' the forestry service he said: I “ Conservation is my life work, in the government service, or out of it. I I propose to know about it and to know . sbout the work you all are doing, and ! to keep my interest in it and so far ns I in anv way possible, to retain tny touch 'with it and my knowledge of it.” । The widespread interest in the affair 1 is indicated by the volume of telegrams J (Continued or. Paste Six.) that they see the high class of contest ants nnd are assured of being listed in “classy” company, there will be a rush to take a hand in this merry war for prestige, honor and a prize to bo proud of. Certainly no such prizes were ever before offered here and never will be again Unless the Light and Gazette does it. Well, the ball is open and the favors are worth setting a very merry clip to win. What prize do you want? The Contestants. Cast your eye up and down the list of live oues and you will see many prominent names on the list from school boys and girls to men and women of affairs, eveu the clergy are repre sented by Father and Kev. All brittan. The society bud and well known matron are also enrolled —the lure of such splendid prizes is strong enough to enlist the desire of some of the most prominent people in ami around fan Aatonio. When the two splendid adijitioual prizes are noted in today’s announcement there will be a great increase of interest and many more strong candidates added—-iu fact nominations will be coming in for many weeks yet. The Leader Miss Hilda Lee. A well known aud highly connected school girl. Miss Hilda now of tContinued on Page